TY - BOOK AU - Hiebel,Friedrich ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Novalis: German Poet-European Thinker-Christian Mystic T2 - UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures SN - 9781469657554 AV - PT2291.Z5 H53 1954 U1 - 928.3 PB - Project Muse KW - Novalis, KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - A condensed version, in English, of the author's Novalis, der Dichter der Blauen Blume; Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; "Essays and studies about Novalis and his age, published in the United States and Great Britain."; "Editions of Novalis' works in the English language."; Open Access N2 - Originally published in 1954, Hiebel's Novalis was the first critical evaluation in English of the life and works of Novalis (1772-1801), the German Romantic poet of the Blue Flower, since Thomas Carlyle's essay in 1829. This book presents not only a fully rounded picture of the man, the philosopher and scientist, the writer of beautiful fairy tales, the mystic poet of Christianity, but also a thoughtful commentary on one of the most influential and fruitful periods in German intellectual life. Hiebel combines the exactness required of the scholar with the creative writer's intuitive appreciation of a great poet's works UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75776/ ER -